Toronto_Ted
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Placid
[quote=The Don Revie]I would argue that our wage bill was signficantly lower proportion of turnover than other clubs - it's all relative. The fact we generate a significantly higher turnover should mean that we invest a similar higher proportion to wages and not strangle it. It's meant to be about progress and if you have the means to invest then you do so, not try and create a level playing field by investing the same/a little more than your competitors.This season we have spent fuck all. £100k on Lonerghan - lost max, lost bradley, lost 'killa', lost schmeichal and haven't spent relative to turnover - which is what businesses do to grow and compete. I don't believe we have invested money anywhere near the same rate as those in our league and while we struggle to compete, we have invested £7m on corporate boxes on infrastructure we don't own. Allegedly.[/quote]Its 54% Derby's is around the same everyone else is a higher. Leicester's will be over 100% this seaseon. Suspect bates is not arsed about going up due an alleged tax bill he has hanging over the club from admin. All heresay. Its had the tits debated off it on here. Interesting those win ratio stats though.
buddyrydell
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Toronto_Ted
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buddyrydell
[quote=The Don Revie]I would argue that our wage bill was signficantly lower proportion of turnover than other clubs - it's all relative. The fact we generate a significantly higher turnover should mean that we invest a similar higher proportion to wages and not strangle it. It's meant to be about progress and if you have the means to invest then you do so, not try and create a level playing field by investing the same/a little more than your competitors.This season we have spent fuck all. £100k on Lonerghan - lost max, lost bradley, lost 'killa', lost schmeichal and haven't spent relative to turnover - which is what businesses do to grow and compete. I don't believe we have invested money anywhere near the same rate as those in our league and while we struggle to compete, we have invested £7m on corporate boxes on infrastructure we don't own. Allegedly.[/quote]Forget proportion 12-13m is a bigger number than many of the competition gross. And forget transfer fees, its total spend - wages, plus fees paid and received.I suspect some of the ones in on a frees are on £600k plus signing on fees.More concerning is the fact so many are shit.
The_Don_Revie
Intersting that PC - the fact we are at 54% means we are competing on a level playing field outside of Leicester, Ipswich, Brighton (at a guess), Boro, Saints etc hence we are where we are. I wouldn't want bates to go to 100% by any stretch but we should easily be busting our balls to get out of this league and spend relative to the resources we have.If we went up we have to pay back the creditors a further 10p in the £ from what I remember so it will be interesting to see what happens during the next close season or whether we will be mid-table mediocrity for years to come. It's all gone quiet on the 'financial fair play' bollocks as well as that will no doubt give us the clout we need to start competing again.
whatastraplength
While I'd like us to spend more - as yes, growing businesses should invest in accordance with their incomings - I do agree that we probably outspend about 75 per cent of this division. And anyone can see that Grayson's transfer activity has largely been uninspiring... the majority, including his beloved loans - have been downright stinkers.The interesting thing in all this I'd say is that the transfers that have really worked for us recently - Gradel, Lonergan and Clayton and McCormack who have come good this year - are all players we actually paid fees for. Which beats the fuck out of the freebies and loans argument both Grayson and the club policy put forward as a transfer policy.
LUFC442
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buddyrydell
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Toronto_Ted
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LUFC442
Know what you mean. Hope all is well you and yours...
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old_codger
We've already got Trigger :lol: